Shaping Eyebrows: The Perfect Eyebrow Shape

Shaping Eyebrows: The Perfect Eyebrow Shape

Clean, well defined shaped eyebrows can totally alter the look of your face. The perfect eyebrow shape should emphasize your eyes and define your facial features. Creating the perfect arched eyebrow is no easy for everyone. Some people are blessed with a full, lush brow that can be shaped into any brow style. However, if you're like most women, you struggle with sparse brows that are difficult to shape. These simple steps below allow anyone to create the best shaped brow, no matter what you're working with.

The Basics of eyebrow Shaping: How to pluck your eyebrows

Step One

Start by combing your eyebrows up. Trim any excess that goes beyond the natural brow line. Next, comb your eyebrows down, and do the same.

Step Two

Find where your eyebrows should start and end. To do this, take a pencil and place it vertically, straight up, against your nose. This is where your eyebrow should start; any hair that is visible on the other side of the pencil should be tweezed. Use a white eyeliner pencil mark this are and make the hairs your be plucking stand out.

Next, place the pencil diagonally from the nose to the outer corner of the eye, into the hairline. This is when the eyebrow should end. Mark this area.

Step Three

Start tweezing the middle area above the nose. Next, start tweezing from the bottom of the natural eyebrow line, just above the eyelid. Tweeze one hair at a time. Stop and look.Continue to do this, Pluck and look. Pluck and look. This takes time but in the end it's well worth it. One wrong hair plucked out can change the shape of your eyebrows.

Step Four

Finish tweezing your eyebrows and daub antiseptic across the area. Milk also soothes the inflamed area, reducing redness. Great trick if you're going out in an hour or two.

The best shaped eyebrow is one with an arch. The brow should be thicker near the nose, gently arches up at the outer iris while looking straight forward, and tapers off at the end into a thin line.

Pluck away all the excess eyebrow hairs with the above directions. Now it's time to create your arch. The arch of your brow, or the highest peak should occur over the outside of the iris (the colored part) of your eye. Start at the bottom of the hairline in that area and pluck one hair out at a time, working into the peak. Now that you have the arch, work to the outer corners of the brows, thinning the shape by plucking one hair at a time again.

Shaping the perfect Arch eyebrow

Shaping thin eyebrows:

If your eyebrows are thin and the hair is scarce, eyebrow shaping can be quite difficult. First, clean up all the light, downy hairs above and below the eyebrows. Next, trim any unruly hairs. The trick for making eyebrows look thicker, even a thin set of bows, is to keep the inner brows as thick as possible. This is the area next to the nose. Try just to shape this area, without removing any main eyebrow hairs. Lightly taper the ends into a slightly thinner line.

Shaping Bushy eyebrows:

Bushy eyebrows are the best kind of eyebrow. Crazy huh? But you have the perfect raw material that can be shaped into any eyebrow style desired. The down side to bushy eyebrows is that they require more maintenance.

If you're beginning from scratch, start slow. Beginning at the bridge of the nose, creating a clean line where your brow begins. Next, start at the bottom of the brow, near the lid and begin removing these hairs. Clean the top and the sides. Now is the time to begin shaping your brows into and arch or a full line. Always start by plucking and cleaning up the entire brow area before shaping!

Eyebrow Shaping Tips